Cigarette holder



Oct. 1, 1929. E I 5. J. FARANDA 9 3 CIGARETTE HOLDER Filed' Juna- 24, L927 INVENTOR 5,41. VATORE J. fikR/WQA TTORNEY CIGARETTE HOLDER Application filed June 24,

This invention relates toholders for cigarettes and cigars. it is contemplated that the invention will be chiefly used for cigarettes and it will, therefore, be described and claimed herein as a cigarette holder, but the word cigarette as hereinafter used, is not intended to have a narrow meaning, but is intended to include cigars, also, except where the context plainly indicates that the word is used in a more limited sense.

' The smoking of cigarettes is at times, at least, attended with inconvenience, discom fort, and embarrassment,'resiilts in untidi-- ness and litter, and, if the smoker is careless,

is likely to result in burning or charring oi furniture or clothing, or in personal in ury or in starting a confiagration.

The present invention has for its object to provide means to substantially diminish so or avoid these objectionable features. To this end it is a feature of the invention that provision is made of a cigarette holder hav ing a guard or container for surrounding the cigarette which will efiectively prevent spilling of the ashes from the cigarette tip,

will obviate the necessity for knocking the ashes ofi into an ash tray at frequent inter-'v vals, and will guard the cigarette from contact with other objects which it might injure, so or which might knock out the light.

' lt'is a further object of the invention to provide such guard or container with a cover operable between a position to partially open the container and admit air thereto and a position to close the extinguish the cigarette. This feature has several advantages. It avoids the likelihood of a burning cigarette being thrown down hurriedly in a place where it might start a conflagration. It also results in economy to the smoker, and particularly in conserving cigarettes when the available supply is limited, since partially consumed. cigarettes can be saved for future use.

Uther objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cigarette holder embodying features of the invention,

container and thereby 192?. Serial in. across.

and shows the container in closed positionil Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1, showing the container in open position, as it would be'when the cigarette is being smoked;

Figure 3 is an enlarged,'fragmentary, lon+ gitudinal, central, vertical section;

Figure 4 is a transverbavertical section on the line,4- l of Figure 3, looking in the direction of the arrows; and

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 4:, showing the container in open position.

The cigarette holder comprises a mouthpiece 1 having a passage 2 therethrough which is enlarged at its outer end to receive v the end oi? a cigarette 3 The outer end of the mouthpiece is reduced slightly to form a I shoulder 4, and the reduced end 5 of the mouthpiece is externally threaded, preferably with a multiple thread of steep pitch.

Provision is made of a cigarette guard and container 6 in which the cigarette 3 is adapted to lie while being smoked. The container, in, the illustrative form or the inventiomcomprises a cylindrical barrel 7 of wood, briar, amber, or other suitable material which is internally threaded at one end for detachable securenient to the reduced threaded-end 5 of the-mouthpiece. Except at the ends thereof, the barrel 7 has a considerable segment cut away along one of its sides to form an opening 8, through which air may-be admitted to the lighted cigarette When the cigarette is being smoked, it is, of course,- necessary to adm t air to the barrel,

and "the opening 8 is therefore uncovered. When it is desired to put the cigarette holder away, however, and-conditions are such that no proper disposition can be made of the cigarette and ashes in the holder, it is desirable to coverthe opening'8 so thatthe container may be used for the storage of the cigarette and the ashes and may be carried in the pocket until a suitable opportunity for disposing of the cigarette and .theashes occurs. 5 lo this end provision is'madeol a sleeve 9 rotatablymounted on the'barrelK' The sleeveil has a considerable segment cut away completely along one side, except at the ends of the sleeve to form an opening 10 of slightextinguish the cigarette quickly.

. When a cigarette is smoked in the holder as described, the tobacco is burned completely, but approximately all of the lower half of the paper remains unburned. The ashes adhere to this unburned paper and are not readily shaken out, .even when the holder is inverted. lVhen it is desired to remove the old cigarette, however, and the barrel 7 is unscrewed from the mouthpiece 1, the cigarette butt adhering to the mouthpiece withdraws the entire length of unburned paper together with the contained ashes from the barrel, and'leaves the barrel clean and unobstructed for the reception of a fresh cigarette. 1

Due to the protection to the barrel afforded by the unburned paper, the barrel does not become substantially charred or cakcd, and cleaning is seldom necessary. As a cigarette may occasionally become ammed in the barrel, however, provision is made of a removable plug 11 in the end of the barrel 7 remote from the mouthpiece 1. WVhen it is necessary to clean the barrel, the plug 11 and the mouthpiece 1 are removed from the barrel 7 and the barrel is then cleaned bv thrusting a suitable rod or other cleaner through it.

While, as has been stated, the barrel 7 does not char substantially, there is a very slow charring and eating away of the barrel along the edges of the opening 8. This eating away of the barrel may occur more rapidly at one end of the barrel than the other. In order to prolong the useful life of the container, it may be desirable to reverse the container end for'end. Accordingly, the end 12 of the plug 11 is threaded in exactly the same I manner as the end 3 of the mouthpiece 1, so

that the plug .and mouthpiece can be interchanged, if desired.

. In using the invention, the smokerfirst unscrews the container 6 from the mouth piece 1, inserts a cigarette in the mouthpiece, and then threads the mouthpiece into the barrel 7. The opening 8 in the barrel 7 is long enough to extend a little beyond the end of a cigarette so that a match may be applied at the far'end of the opening 8 for lighting the cigarette.

Should the smoker desire to lay his cigarette down while lighted, there is no danger of marring furniture, since the ci arette cannot come into contact with the 0 ject on which it is laid. Small bosses;13

may be pressed outward on the sleeve 9 to prevent the holder from rolling when thus laid down.

While I have illustrated and described in detail certain preferred forms of my invention, it is'to be understood that changes may be made therein and the invention embodied in other structures. I do not, therefore, desire to limit myself to the specific constructions illustrated, but intend to cover my invention broadly in whatever form its principle may be utilized.

rel, a removable plug closing the opposite end of the barrel, said barrel having an opening along one side thereof, and a member rotatably mounted on the barrel and operable to cover and uncover the opening in the side of the barrel as desired.

3. In a cigarette holder, the combination with a mouthpiece, of a cigarette containing barrel detachably secured thereto, a sleeve on the barrel, said barrcl'and sleeve each having an opening along one side'thereof, the sleeve being rotatable on the barrel to cover'and uncover the barrel opening, and a removable plug closing the end of the barrel remote from the mouthpiece.

4. In a cigarette holder, in combination, a cigarette containing barrel open along one side, and a cover sleeve journaled on the barrel coaxially therewith and rotatable relative'thereto to cover and uncover said open side as desired.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature to this specification.

SALVATORE J. FARANDA. 

